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marshrutni - 'marshrutnoyi taxi' (rus) - yertughayin taxi (arm) - or simply marshrutka...

but aren't those just convenience words, mostly out of habit? you'd never (or almost never) see a sign on the street saying "մարոժնի" (even at the "most informal" of the places)... you would see "պաղպաղակ - морожоне - ice-cream"

hi nairi jan... i guess i haven't welcomed you back properly... so, welcome... nice talking to you again... as for the list on hand, i was just being silly...

nairi, whould you consider those as 'loanwords incorporated into the language (or the dialect)' or just jargon used in daily conversation only... probably 30% (if not more) of an average yerevantsi's daily vocabulary consists of russian words, but i wouldn't consider those as parts of the armenian language...

b** vardush bderov mariam qshats gohar paytats hasmik mets prrosh nina ezhan gayan etc etc...

a question... should the flag represent the country (the republic) or the ethnicity?

in ea, the commonly used word is 'musulman'/մուսուլման... equally is used 'mahmedakan'/մահմեդական... 'tajik'/տաճիկ is usually referred to [muslim] turks...

even though i share your pain, i don't agree with your comment about the americans... also wanted to point out that this is even wrose with armenians who have been living in diaspora for generations... some (if not most) of them think of armenia as it was 100 years ago...

chherratsav... mughamov tsvrvav...

to a lot of armenians, belonging to certain ethnicities is already an insult... why aggravate the pain by adding extra wordings to it...

but in general, yes, armenians use very diverse and not forgiving insults that will knock your socks off...

xachik

this looks like a good flag idea that we can use... http://www.oatesflag.com/Submit/Images/SupplyingArtwork.gif

ok, what's the last verdict regarding the word 'xanut'/խանութ? i've been arguing with my arabic coworker about this word for over a year now... though he pronouces it 'hanout'... do i win or lose?

not much relavent to the topic on hand, but just to point out that differences in spelling in armenian... բարբառ բարբարոս (based on barbarian)

so now, does pepper have semitic or pie origin?

true... ... and around here certain armenians have a special way of getting in their nervs about that...

ah, yes... one arab coworker once told it sounds like hebrew... but again, he gets kick out of it each time he compares armenians to jews...

not to start another contraversy, but it's very interesting how israel started attacking lebanon as soon as syrian troops were essencially thrown out of lebanon... was throwing syria out of lebanon the first step of the long planned attack on lebanon? hmm...

it's indeed very interesting... i've wondered about this a lot myself... sometimes when i hear people speaking armenian, i try to block the meaning of the words, try to pretend i don't understand the language, and try to hear just how it sounds... needless to say it doesn't work... though, one bulgarian coworker says it sounds like turkish to him... one other interesting thing... there are a lot of ethiopians in las vegas, and i get to hear them talk a lot... when i'm not paying attention, and they suddenly start talking, for a split second it feels as though someone is talking in armenian... i can't help but turn to look... although the words are absolutely not similar, their intonation (to ea armenian of yerevan region) and sounds do sound like armenian...

i think we had this discussion before... http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=13839

school is very important... because if you're not from a particular school you're not invited to the frat parties and other crazy parties that go on in that schools...

ban@ banin ban arets... ban@ toghets herratsav... minchev ban@ het chga... ban@ bani petq chi ga...

duq dzer banov ban aretsiq toghetsiq...